Operations Manager
Tetra Maritime
Lagos
Nigeria
July 3, 2026
Full-timeJuly 3, 2026
Job Description
Job Overview:
We are building an AI-Native Engineering team and seeking an Engineering Team Lead to lead the DevOps strategy, platforms, and practices across the enterprise. This role ensures development and operations teams are supported with the right tools, pipelines, and automation to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Define and execute the DevOps strategy and roadmap for the enterprise. Champion a DevSecOps culture, embedding security" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #007bff !important;">security and compliance into every stage of the SDLC. Partner with engineering managers, architects, and product leaders to improve delivery velocity, resilience, and platform reliability. Lead modernization initiatives such as cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. Own and manage CI/CD pipelines, build/release processes, and automation frameworks. Ensure observability, monitoring, and logging frameworks are in place for all applications and services. Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Oversee the deployment and scaling of systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Manage platform reliability practices (SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs). Ensure DevOps practices comply with security, regulatory, and data protection standards. Implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response frameworks. Govern access management, secrets management, and secure configuration management. Align DevOps operations with enterprise ITIL and GRC frameworks. Lead, coach, and mentor DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and automation specialists. Foster a culture of automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Develop career pathways and succession planning for DevOps talent. Encourage knowledge sharing, cross-training, and innovation across DevOps teams. Collaborate with engineering, QA, and security managers to deliver end-to-end platform reliability. Manage relationships with cloud providers, DevOps tooling vendors, and third-party partners. Represent DevOps in architecture boards, engineering forums, and executive updates. Drive cost optimization and value realization from cloud and DevOps investments.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (mandatory). Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in IT/Engineering) – advantageous. Professional Certifications (preferred/required): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer; Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD); Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef); Security/Compliance certifications (CISSP, CISM, cloud security); Agile/SAFe certifications (Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner).
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (mandatory). Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in IT/Engineering) – advantageous.
Experience:
8–12 years’ experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership capacity. Proven experience building and scaling DevOps practices in enterprise or fintech environments. Hands-on expertise with CI/CD, automation, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and monitoring tools. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and hybrid cloud platforms. Experience implementing SRE practices, observability, and incident response frameworks. Familiarity with regulated industries (banking, fintech, telecom, healthcare) preferred.
Languages:
English
Additional Notes:
We’re looking for innovators, problem-solvers, and experts ready to drive change and grow with us.
We are building an AI-Native Engineering team and seeking an Engineering Team Lead to lead the DevOps strategy, platforms, and practices across the enterprise. This role ensures development and operations teams are supported with the right tools, pipelines, and automation to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Define and execute the DevOps strategy and roadmap for the enterprise. Champion a DevSecOps culture, embedding security" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #007bff !important;">security and compliance into every stage of the SDLC. Partner with engineering managers, architects, and product leaders to improve delivery velocity, resilience, and platform reliability. Lead modernization initiatives such as cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. Own and manage CI/CD pipelines, build/release processes, and automation frameworks. Ensure observability, monitoring, and logging frameworks are in place for all applications and services. Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Oversee the deployment and scaling of systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Manage platform reliability practices (SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs). Ensure DevOps practices comply with security, regulatory, and data protection standards. Implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response frameworks. Govern access management, secrets management, and secure configuration management. Align DevOps operations with enterprise ITIL and GRC frameworks. Lead, coach, and mentor DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and automation specialists. Foster a culture of automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Develop career pathways and succession planning for DevOps talent. Encourage knowledge sharing, cross-training, and innovation across DevOps teams. Collaborate with engineering, QA, and security managers to deliver end-to-end platform reliability. Manage relationships with cloud providers, DevOps tooling vendors, and third-party partners. Represent DevOps in architecture boards, engineering forums, and executive updates. Drive cost optimization and value realization from cloud and DevOps investments.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (mandatory). Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in IT/Engineering) – advantageous. Professional Certifications (preferred/required): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer; Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD); Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef); Security/Compliance certifications (CISSP, CISM, cloud security); Agile/SAFe certifications (Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner).
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (mandatory). Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc in IT/Engineering) – advantageous.
Experience:
8–12 years’ experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership capacity. Proven experience building and scaling DevOps practices in enterprise or fintech environments. Hands-on expertise with CI/CD, automation, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and monitoring tools. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and hybrid cloud platforms. Experience implementing SRE practices, observability, and incident response frameworks. Familiarity with regulated industries (banking, fintech, telecom, healthcare) preferred.
Languages:
English
Additional Notes:
We’re looking for innovators, problem-solvers, and experts ready to drive change and grow with us.
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